When: Thursday, September 25, 2008 | 1:00-8:00pm Where: Broad Institute Auditorium | 7 Cambridge Center | Cambridge, MA
A symposium on the key intellectual, academic, administrative, public and political obstacles on the path from bench to bedside.
Sponsored by: Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) and the Broad Institute
Keynotes: Thomas R. Cech, President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Nobel Laureate Lawrence A. Tabak, Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH
Other Speakers and Panelists Include: Connie L. Cepko, Co-Director Leder Human Biology and Translational Medicine, HMS Donald Cutlip, Executive Director, Harvard Clinical Research Institute Thomas Michel, Dean of Education, Harvard Medical School Marcella K. Ruddy, Director of Clinical Research, Merck Research Laboratories Frederick J. Schoen, CIMIT Site Miner and Exec. Vice Chairman, Dept. of Pathology, BWH Bruce D. Walker, Professor of Medicine, HMS Robert Gould, Director, Novel Therapeutics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Dario Fauza, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston Randall T. Peterson, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Joseph B. Bolen, CSO, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.